DefenceTalkAn American air strike on a Shebab training camp in Somalia killed more than 150 fighters planning an imminent attack on forces from the United States and its regional allies, the Pentagon said Monday. While the US military regularly conducts operations targeting the Al-Qaeda-linked fighters in Somalia, Saturday’s raid had a greater toll than all […]https://www.defencetalk.com/us-strike-kills-at-least-150-shebab-fighters-in-somalia-66975/

DefenceTalkThe Russian military said its warplanes suspended all sorties over Syria on Saturday in line with a ceasefire deal brokered by Russia and the United States, to avoid any “bombing mistakes”. The Russian and American militaries also exchanged maps of Syria, while fighting stopped in 34 Syrian settlements, the military said. “Russia’s air force fully […]https://www.defencetalk.com/russia-halts-all-syria-bombing-sorties-to-avoid-mistakes-66877/

DefenceTalkIntense Russian air strikes battered rebel bastions across Syria on Friday, a monitor said, just hours before a midnight deadline for a landmark ceasefire in the country’s five-year civil war. With the ceasefire due to take effect at 2200 GMT on Friday, US President Barack Obama has warned Damascus and key ally Moscow that the […]https://www.defencetalk.com/air-strikes-batter-rebels-ahead-of-syria-ceasefire-deadline-66859/

DefenceTalkRussia on Tuesday denied bombing hospitals in northern Syria, with Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov calling such accusations “unsubstantiated.” “Once again, we categorically reject and do not accept such statements,” he said when asked whether Russian planes bombed hospitals in Syria, including one supported by Doctors Without Borders (MSF). “Especially since every time, those who make […]https://www.defencetalk.com/russia-denies-air-strikes-on-syria-hospitals-66773/

DefenceTalkWashington: A coalition air strike killed an Islamic State finance chief in Iraq last month, the US military said Thursday, hailing it as another scalp in its bid to shatter the extremists’ financial network. Abu Saleh was killed in late November, US military spokesman Colonel Steve Warren said in a videoconference from Baghdad, calling him […]https://www.defencetalk.com/isis-finance-chief-killed-in-iraq-air-strike-us-66033/

DefenceTalkPakistan’s military said Thursday it had killed 21 militants in air strikes in a restive northwestern tribal area bordering Afghanistan. The strikes were carried out late Thursday in the Rajgal and Tirah areas of the lawless Khyber tribal district, where Taliban militant and local Islamist groups are active. “Twenty-one terrorists were killed in precise aerial […]https://www.defencetalk.com/pakistani-air-strikes-kill-21-militants-in-northwest-65674/

DefenceTalkA suspected Saudi-led air strike killed at least 28 people at a wedding in a rebel-held town in Yemen, witnesses and rebels said Thursday, even as UN peace efforts made headway. The Saudi-led coalition, under mounting criticism over the civilian death toll of its bombing campaign against Iran-backed rebels, denied any involvement in the latest […]https://www.defencetalk.com/suspected-saudi-led-air-strike-kills-28-at-yemen-wedding-65583/

DefenceTalkUnited Nations: President Vladimir Putin said Monday that Russia had not ruled out air strikes in support of Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad’s forces in their battle against jihadist rebels. “We are thinking about it. We don’t rule anything out. But if we are to act it will only be fully respecting international legal norms,” he […]https://www.defencetalk.com/putin-does-not-rule-out-russian-strikes-in-syria-65495/

DefenceTalkTwenty civilians were among at least 45 people killed in Saudi-led air strikes on the rebel-held armed forces headquarters in the Yemeni capital on Sunday, a medic said. The raids on the army headquarters in central Sanaa came a day after the kingdom’s air defences shot down a Scud missile fired from the war-torn country. […]https://www.defencetalk.com/45-dead-in-saudi-led-raids-on-yemen-capital-64403/

DefenceTalkPakistan’s military said it killed 34 militants Wednesday in air strikes on a tribal region near the Afghan border as part of a major offensive against insurgents that began last year. The Taliban and Lashkar-e-Islam militant groups are based in Khyber, one of seven autonomous tribal districts along Pakistan’s western border, which became a hideout […]https://www.defencetalk.com/pakistan-kills-34-militants-in-air-strikes-military-63597/